The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-31

Iust VtoWo' DuihuS IN free
Press.
Either prize fighting is illegal or
il is not. II 1t is illegal it should be
suppressed and if it is not illegal it
should be made so.--Boston Home
Journal.
A grewler remarks: Chicago is a
poor place to make money. They
arrested one fellow this week for sim
ply making half dollars. Chicago
Inter. Ocean.
King Kalskaua takes the loyalty
of his subjects for granted, which is
more than anybody else would do,
aud he may not mean it.-Leaven-
worth Times.
II the prospects for corn do not
speedily improve throughout the
great Northwest, every Northern
kernel will be worth a dozen South
ern colonies this iall.-Chicago Tri.
bune.
If it were not for the climate and
malaria and mosquitoes aud lack of
hotel accommodation, st. Louis
would be a good summer resort. 1t
is quiet place. Chicago Inter
Ocean.
II Blaine intends to claim relation
ship with all the peoples OF Europe,
Carter Harrison Of Chicago, should
proceed against him for infringement
Of patent.-St. Louis Republican.
II you can get away Tor a summer
vacation it is best to go, II you
cannot you will find great comfort in
the reflection that there is no place
like home. Philadelphia Inquirer,
lIProhibition doesn't keep the law
yers OF Atlanta from throwing law
books, Bibles and ink pots at one
another in tho p: essence Of the court.
These proceedings smack very
strongly Of surreptitious rum.-Phil
adelphia Record.
Ii does not help a man to tell him
what he knows already, that the
weather is damp aud muggy but so
soon as he is informed that humid
| ity" il the trouble with the atmos-
phere, he begins to feel better
Boston Post.
The twin question is settled. An
inscription on q tombstone in Win
sted has this deeply cut inscription
in the marble: - infant twins" IL
q stonecutter don't know what mum.
Der constitutes twins" who does2--
Hartford Courant.
| When the weather is very no,
1000 New York city people 90 ia
Coney Island, where the sun shines
on the white sand and glistens on the
water. They do not know exactly
what they 40 TO Couey Island for, but
they go.-New Orleans Picayune.
The only really disappointed teach
or ameng all those who attended tn Z
great convention in this city weel
before last, so far as we have heard
was Philadelphia man OF an inquir
ing turn Of mina, who had come al
the way from Chicago to see Lon
John Wentworth, under the i'm
preston that he was 8 feet Ill inche
, high.-Chicago Tribune.
No doubt soda water is q beverag,
, rather than a medicine, but bover
age may be q necessity. Water is no
, a medicine, but TO the traveller il
the desert il is a godsend. Sunda
, travellers in pittsburg are 10 deser
, 20 far as drinking water is concerned
The drugstore becomes the oasis an
, the soda fountain the relreshin
= spring.-Pittsburg Commercial GI
zette.
= One OF the queerest facts in naturI
: history has been discovered by q
1 Rev. j. j. Lafferty, OF Richmon'
= who gives il to the world in his r.
q ligious journal as follows: When
a sparrow hawk pounces on guinea
!. let's the yuinea ay, but the hawk, 81
= ting on the back OF tho tow, u,
. his own tail TO guide the guinea. Il
q always steers his victim 10 his ne
i in the forest. Atlanta ConstitI
q ton.
- A gentleman on Cotton avenu
!, says that Flint river is 10 low q
10 catfish have left the water aud il
= vaded the woods aud felds, Tn,
|, have nearly devastated field oil col
> for Lucius Hudson, living sever
?. miles from the river. IL is said thl
- the noise they make in pulling q
;, corn would be equal TO a hundr,
"a head OF hungry cattle. The gentl
Il man is a very reliable g. ocer, and
n doubt he is correct, as he and lIu
!. son had n talk over it.-Sumpt
Is ga Republican.